worlds

When Fred Kerley was a young boy, sleeping on a pallet with 12 other kids in a single room in Texas, he would dream of travelling the world. Instead, on a night of impossible drama in Eugene, he conquered it.In the final desperate…

LONDON/KISUMU, Kenya, July 13 (Reuters) - After decades of work, the World Health Organization endorsed the first-ever malaria vaccine last year - a historic milestone that promised to drive back a disease that kills a child every…

When the temperature readings started to come through from Antarctic weather stations in early March, scientists at first thought there might have been some mistake. Temperatures, which should have been cooling rapidly as the south…

India's first liquid-mirror telescope, which also happens to be Asia's largest telescope, stared into the vast expanse of sky for the first time from an altitude of 2,450 meters in the Himalayas.Nestled comfortably on the campus of the…

Planets outside of our Solar System are rather dull things. So dull, we can only see them directly by sifting out a scattering of reflected rays amid the glare of their parent star. Even then, the best we can manage is a pinprick to…

Washington Post columnist Max Boot freaked out over the world’s richest man potentially buying Twitter. The reason? Doing so might hurt his dream to increase censorship on the platform. Boot had a complete meltdown in an April…

OHIO — The billionaires of the world are worth a whopping $12.7 trillion— even though their fortunes fell by more than $400 billion as sanctions target Russian oligarchs following Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine and the pandemic…

As the networks show us grisly photos of dead civilians lying in the streets of Ukraine, when most people could agree what Vladimir Putin is a deeply evil man, CNN and Brian Stelter touted a hot take (attributed to President…

The latest addition of 65 exoplanets to the NASA Exoplanet Archive contributed to the scientific milestone marked on Monday. This archive is the home to exoplanet discoveries from peer-reviewed scientific papers that have been confirmed…

Humans have long looked to the sky and wondered how many Earth-like worlds were out there. Thanks to powerful telescopes developed in recent years, both professional and amateur astronomers have discovered a plethora of planets orbiting…